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Which Chinese dialect? And it may be better to add some examples.
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StanJun 22 '13 at 9:37

Yes, but it entirely depends on the dialect!
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Stumpy Joe PeteJun 22 '13 at 19:35

I removed the "any dialect" requirement because this makes the question overly broad and practically unanswerable by one person.
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xiaohouzi79♦Jun 27 '13 at 0:06

@xiaohouzi79 You have also deleted the reference to two dialects as well, which made the question no less broad and unanswerable by a.n.y. person. Besides, I don't suppose we have an excessive number of dialect speakers here.
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ManjusriJun 27 '13 at 11:25

Most chinese dialects have a different set of tones for "checked" or "closed" syllables. E.g., in Cantonese, tones 7, 8, and 9 only exist in syllables ending in -p, -t, and -k.
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Stumpy Joe PeteJun 25 '13 at 19:00

@StumpyJoePete: While Cantonese checked-tone syllables can be numbered separately (7/8/9) for historical reasons, in practice, they are pronounced the same as tones 1/3/6, respectively. In addition, due to 變音, they may even be pronounced in tone 2.
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ClawJun 27 '13 at 2:59

@Claw So they are! Thanks for the info. Anyhow, it's easy to find other examples: In Shanghainese, all of the tones in words with a voiced initial are lower than (although the same "shape" as) the corresponding tones in words with unvoiced initials.
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Stumpy Joe PeteJun 27 '13 at 4:50

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@Claw Thanks for fixing my example. Checked tones really work as a pretty broad class of these. Since middle chinese had 8 tone categories (阴平,阳平,阴上,阳上,阴去,阳去,阴入,阳入) and only 2 of them were "checked" (the two 入 categories), the checked tones will be in complementary distribution with something. Of course it depends on how the particular language's tone categories (and syllable structure--e.g., Mandarin has no -p,-t,-k syllables) have changed over time.
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Stumpy Joe PeteJun 27 '13 at 7:38